Long Island's Oldest Reform Congregation
140 Central Avenue - Lawrence, NY 11559
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Is it really May already?

Other than Family Services (May 4th), High School graduation (on May 11th), Confirmation services (on May 28th), Mother’s Day (no school), report cards, and the last session of the High School program (May 14th) May is a relatively slow month. Still, we have managed to squeeze in at least one more very exciting and important development: The Sherri W. Philipson Computer Centre.

For those of you who haven’t come into the building in a while I urge you to visit our new computer centre which has been created in a portion of our library. Come and see for yourself just how we are growing in our determination to provide the best Jewish education possible to our children.

I will be inviting parents of students in grades 2 through 6 to spend some time with me as I show them just what this wonderful addition will mean to them and their families.

I look forward to showing off this new and exciting addition to our program. Our computer centre demonstrates our very strong commitment to our education program and to our families. I hope you have as much pride in what we’re doing as I do!

Now, for my May Religious School scholars:

1. Bob Dylan was born on May 24th of what year?
2. The first printed set of Mishnah with the commentary of Maimonides was published in Naples on May 8th of what year? (hint: it was the same year that someone sailed the ocean blue.)
3. On what day and in what year did the United States recognize the State of Israel?

Good luck and good learning!

David Woolfe